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...Jonathan Safran Foer hasn't always been like this. "I was a flamboyant child," he says. "I used to wear, like, very crazy outfits all the time--bow ties, big blazers, glittery stuff. I was a little mini-Liberace." Not anymore. Foer is so buttoned-down and serious he makes Philip Roth look like Andre...
...Oskar that can be cloying. When he trots out yet another amusing hobby or one of his many idiosyncratic verbal mannerisms--he pronounces acronyms like ESP phonetically; instead of saying something is great, he says it's "one hundred dollars"--you have to fight back the image of Jonathan Lipnicki, the kid from Jerry Maguire. But these doubts are pulverized by the book's devastating set pieces, which are of the kind only a genuine talent who knows exactly what he wants to say can pull off. Foer's rendition of the Allied bombing of Dresden, in a flashback involving...
...Staff writer Jonathan P. Hay can be reached at hay@fas.harvard.edu...
Attendance dropped more than half from last year, when over 200 Harvard students participated, helping to raise over $900, according to Stephanie H. Tung ’06, who organized the event with Katherine Chen ’06 and Jonathan W. Scott...
...Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...